Other important things that are going undone. Within this committees own jurisdiction we should be addressed in the opioid epidemic. We could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. We could be protecting americans for having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by Chinese Companies and we could be enhancing Election Security just to name a few things. Congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. Providing additional tax relief to the nations middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. Instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. What a waste. The American People deserve so much better. I yield back. The Gentleman Yield back. Thank you, mr. Chair. I take no pleasure in the fact that we are here today. As a patriot who loves america,
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outside of seattle were good samaritan got involved in an armed robbery and got shot in the leg. the problem is created this culture of lawlessness than people realize that people are not getting punished, all have this innate to see a consequenc for bad behavior and so the longer we allow this kind of stuff to continue without any meaningful punishment whatsoeve the more likely prt seat instances of people saying enough is enough if you re not going to do anything, i m going to do something. i want to get this take from you because laurie backs burke laurie baxter told front of the affiliates that we are not changing and have not change th process or approach in the lead up to the all-star game meaning they re not just cleaning up th cities city so that the basebal game [indiscernible] they are trying to get away with nonsense.
and keep in mind that this is a man who is a candidate for president again. he could very well be the president again. there is no victory the end of the story but also no loss the end of the story. that s something i thought abous a lot. last summer during the amber heard and johnny depp trial there were a lot of funerals for me, too, the end of a story, an end of the lot of progress and social movement forward. this is a lesson for me we shouldn t be taking the temperature and announcing the endser or beginnings. we re in a long, long, generations long process here. todayng is a very big day in th process. it s such an important i read the story before the verdict. and i was girding myself like this is how people are going to process a loss in this trial, but in fact it ends up being a win which in some ways also makes the point in a slightly different fashion. i think we have a full screen of the article you re mentioning,
those speedy trial o requirements that s right, two different range areas, i believe i think there is just on starting right now, but sh doesn t have the time to do. it i think that the next one i two months in. i got you we should say that this is bee a weird case in so far as th process itself as a distinct one, it s a special grand jury empaneled. then the grand jury had this report, there is a battle of her being released, fani willi went before a judge and said that we thought that the indictments pursuant would b imminent there is been an obvious delay you just said something that was also reported in the new york times, some sense tha perhaps the delay could be due to cooperators explain why people have that kind of inkling, or that reporting in the case in the new york times i would say that it s reporting. she made a motion to recuse an attorney who is implement representing ten different defendants in phony electo schemes. among the themes she reveale in that motion w
program after that protest and then, again, in 2016, when i sat down at him again at 3 rock, to talk about mass incarceration as a civil right issue. i take incarceration to b one of the last truly deep wrinkles in the american theme of what we ve done to crucif young people, not only in th process of putting them in prison, but what happens t them after they come out - unemployment, can t vote it s a cruel place in which to be harry belafonte died toda of congestive heart failure at his home in new york city. he was 96 years old. his legacy of grace and hi lifelong indefatigable pursuit of justice are truly irreplaceable. may he rest in power